Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse – Kevin McDonald

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Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse 1st Edition
by Kevin McDonald (Author), Andreas Wilmsmeier (Author), David C. Dixon (Author), W. H. Inmon (Author)

“This book is insightful and thought-provoking for even the most seasoned SAP BW individual.”
—Richard M. Dunning, Chair, American SAP Users GroupWritten by the leading experts in the field, this comprehensive guide shows you how to implement the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) and create useful applications for business analysis of company-wide data. You’ll quickly learn how to design, build, analyze, and administer the data and information in the SAP BW component. The authors present the material in a way that reflects the process an organization goes through during a software implementation.

They begin with an introduction to the fundamentals of data warehousing and business intelligence, helping you determine if SAP BW is right for your organization. The book then focuses on the business content and options available when trying to deliver value from the data stored in the SAP BW. And it includes a methodology for implementing the BW, such as data modeling and techniques for capturing and transforming data.

With this book, you’ll discover the options available in SAP BW 3.0 and explore a new way to drive business performance. It will show you how to:

• Tackle such challenges as eliminating poor data quality
• Develop an information model in order to properly deploy SAP BW
• Utilize ETL, data storage, information access, analysis, and presentation services
• Schedule, monitor, archive, and troubleshoot data loads
• Effectively plan and manage the performance of a data warehouse

From the Back Cover
“This book is insightful and thought-provoking for even the most seasoned SAP BW individual.”
-Richard M. Dunning, Chair, American SAP Users Group

Written by the leading experts in the field, this comprehensive guide shows you how to implement the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) and create useful applications for business analysis of company-wide data. You’ll quickly learn how to design, build, analyze, and administer the data and information in the SAP BW component. The authors present the material in a way that reflects the process an organization goes through during a software implementation. They begin with an introduction to the fundamentals of data warehousing and business intelligence, helping you determine if SAP BW is right for your organization. The book then focuses on the business content and options available when trying to deliver value from the data stored in the SAP BW. And it includes a methodology for implementing the BW, such as data modeling and techniques for capturing and transforming data.

With this book, you’ll discover the options available in SAP BW 3.0 and explore a new way to drive business performance. It will show you how to:
* Tackle such challenges as eliminating poor data quality
* Develop an information model in order to properly deploy SAP BW
* Utilize ETL, data storage, information access, analysis, and presentation services
* Schedule, monitor, archive, and troubleshoot data loads
* Effectively plan and manage the performance of a data warehouse

About the Author
KEVIN McDONALD is CEO of COMPENDIT, a consulting organization specializing in data warehousing and SAP. Prior to working at COMPENDIT, he was a corporate spokesperson for SAP throughout the launch of the SAP BW in North America.

ANDREAS WILMSMEIER is a managing director at COMPENDIT and was part of the SAP BW development team.

DAVID C. DIXON is a director of Business Intelligence at COMPENDIT and was a SAP “platinum”consultant.

Product details
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition 
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 516 pages

Customer reviews

Michael Bingle
Good Book
I have been managing large BW environments for over 6 years. My people and I agree that this book is informative and worthwhile reading.

It’s too bad that SAP hasn’t created a desktop version of BW so we all could play with it offline and practice what we learn from books like this. But, I understand why they might not want to do so.

Enjoy the read.

Arron Lee
A nice book of of BW
I’ve read 2 books on BW, compared with another book I¡¯ve read, this book is on BW 3.0B which is a more mature DW product of SAP, it not only focuses on the BW transactional stuff but also tries to explain the detailed theories and business cases which are the more valuable points for me. If you¡¯re a BW beginner, this book may not be suitable since it¡¯s not going to teach you how to extract data, setup info source , create data target or create queries in a detail instruction way, but instead bring you a very completely high-level picture of BW architecture and solutions.
The best chapters I would prefer are: Chapter 4 ¨C Information Modeling; Chapter 6 ¨C ETL Services and Chapter 8 ¨C Analytic Application.

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